GB2029498A - Safety belt buckle - Google Patents

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GB2029498A
GB2029498A GB7925146A GB7925146A GB2029498A GB 2029498 A GB2029498 A GB 2029498A GB 7925146 A GB7925146 A GB 7925146A GB 7925146 A GB7925146 A GB 7925146A GB 2029498 A GB2029498 A GB 2029498A
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retaining means
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A44—HABERDASHERY; JEWELLERY
    • A44B—BUTTONS, PINS, BUCKLES, SLIDE FASTENERS, OR THE LIKE
    • A44B11/00—Buckles; Similar fasteners for interconnecting straps or the like, e.g. for safety belts
    • A44B11/25—Buckles; Similar fasteners for interconnecting straps or the like, e.g. for safety belts with two or more separable parts
    • A44B11/2503—Safety buckles
    • A44B11/2507—Safety buckles actuated by a push-button
    • A44B11/2511—Safety buckles actuated by a push-button acting perpendicularly to the main plane of the buckle, e.g. placed on the front face of the buckle
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B64—AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; COSMONAUTICS
    • B64D—EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; FLIGHT SUITS; PARACHUTES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF POWER PLANTS OR PROPULSION TRANSMISSIONS IN AIRCRAFT
    • B64D25/00—Emergency apparatus or devices, not otherwise provided for
    • B64D25/02—Supports or holding means for living bodies
    • B64D25/06—Harnessing
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16B—DEVICES FOR FASTENING OR SECURING CONSTRUCTIONAL ELEMENTS OR MACHINE PARTS TOGETHER, e.g. NAILS, BOLTS, CIRCLIPS, CLAMPS, CLIPS OR WEDGES; JOINTS OR JOINTING
    • F16B45/00—Hooks; Eyes
    • F16B45/06—Hooks with two symmetrically-pivoting hook parts within the same locking cavity
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
    • Y10T24/45—Separable-fastener or required component thereof [e.g., projection and cavity to complete interlock]
    • Y10T24/45225—Separable-fastener or required component thereof [e.g., projection and cavity to complete interlock] including member having distinct formations and mating member selectively interlocking therewith
    • Y10T24/45272—Projection passes through cavity then moves toward noninserted portion of its member to complete interlock [e.g., snap hook]
    • Y10T24/45288—Hook type projection member
    • Y10T24/45293—Plural hooks entering opposite sides of same cavity
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
    • Y10T24/45—Separable-fastener or required component thereof [e.g., projection and cavity to complete interlock]
    • Y10T24/45225—Separable-fastener or required component thereof [e.g., projection and cavity to complete interlock] including member having distinct formations and mating member selectively interlocking therewith
    • Y10T24/45602—Receiving member includes either movable connection between interlocking components or variable configuration cavity
    • Y10T24/45623—Receiving member includes either movable connection between interlocking components or variable configuration cavity and operator therefor
    • Y10T24/45628—Receiving member includes either movable connection between interlocking components or variable configuration cavity and operator therefor for plural, oppositely shifting, similar interlocking components or segments
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
    • Y10T24/45—Separable-fastener or required component thereof [e.g., projection and cavity to complete interlock]
    • Y10T24/45225—Separable-fastener or required component thereof [e.g., projection and cavity to complete interlock] including member having distinct formations and mating member selectively interlocking therewith
    • Y10T24/45602—Receiving member includes either movable connection between interlocking components or variable configuration cavity
    • Y10T24/45623—Receiving member includes either movable connection between interlocking components or variable configuration cavity and operator therefor
    • Y10T24/45628—Receiving member includes either movable connection between interlocking components or variable configuration cavity and operator therefor for plural, oppositely shifting, similar interlocking components or segments
    • Y10T24/45634—Operator includes camming or wedging element
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
    • Y10T24/45—Separable-fastener or required component thereof [e.g., projection and cavity to complete interlock]
    • Y10T24/45225—Separable-fastener or required component thereof [e.g., projection and cavity to complete interlock] including member having distinct formations and mating member selectively interlocking therewith
    • Y10T24/45602—Receiving member includes either movable connection between interlocking components or variable configuration cavity
    • Y10T24/45623—Receiving member includes either movable connection between interlocking components or variable configuration cavity and operator therefor
    • Y10T24/45639—Receiving member includes either movable connection between interlocking components or variable configuration cavity and operator therefor including pivotally connected element on receiving member
    • Y10T24/45644—Receiving member includes either movable connection between interlocking components or variable configuration cavity and operator therefor including pivotally connected element on receiving member for shifting pivotally connected interlocking component
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
    • Y10T24/45—Separable-fastener or required component thereof [e.g., projection and cavity to complete interlock]
    • Y10T24/45225—Separable-fastener or required component thereof [e.g., projection and cavity to complete interlock] including member having distinct formations and mating member selectively interlocking therewith
    • Y10T24/45602—Receiving member includes either movable connection between interlocking components or variable configuration cavity
    • Y10T24/45675—Receiving member includes either movable connection between interlocking components or variable configuration cavity having pivotally connected interlocking component
    • Y10T24/45686—Receiving member includes either movable connection between interlocking components or variable configuration cavity having pivotally connected interlocking component and position locking-means therefor

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Description

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SPECIFICATION Safety belt lock
5 The present invention relates to a safety belt lock.
In known safety belt locks fastened for example to a fixed part of a motor vehicle and for use with a tongue fastened for example to 10a free end of a safety belt, a manually pressa-ble release member is provided which so cooperates with a locking hook that the locking hook, which in a closing position thereof is to be hooked into a recess of the tongue, is 15 movable substantially perpendicularly to the direction of insertion of tongue to release the tongue. In this case, the detent connection between the hook and the tongue has play which leads to a tendency for disturbing 20 rattles to occur. Furthermore, known locks are relatively expensive to construct.
According to the present invention there is provided a safety belt lock comprising at least one resiliently displaceable retaining means 25 provided with hook means detentable at a locking position thereof with a tongue of an element intended to be connected to a safety belt length, a manually actuable release member operable to cause the retaining means to 30 release the tongue, and a blocking member connected to the release member, the blocking member being urged by a spring to block the retaining means at the locking position thereof and to urge the tongue against the 35 hook means.
The retaining means may be pivotably displaceable by a resilient force towards an opening position thereof at which the tongue is releasable, the blocking member being displa-40 ceable against the force of the spring away from the retaining means and automatically couplable with the retaining means in the locking position thereof.
The retaining means may comprise two 45 pivotable levers provided with respective hook means which are movable towards each other to the locking position and away from each other towards the opening position.
The retaining means may comprise abut-50 ment means, the abutment means being spaced from the hook means and in the locking position of the retaining means bearing against a shoulder of the blocking member.
55 The retaining means may comprise projection means so disposed as to urge the tongue from the lock on actuation of the release member and as to cause displacement on the retaining means towards the locking position 60 thereof by insertion of the tongue onto the lock.
The blocking member may comprise a central pressing lug and an abutment surface at each side of the pressing lug, the retaining 65 means comprising further abutment surfaces which are each so disposed as to engage a respective one of the abutment surfaces of the blocking member on the retaining means being at the opening position thereof. 70 The lock may comprise a support member to mount the retaining means, the support member being of unitary construction, generally U-shaped and having an opening for the tongue at the base of the U.
75 The release member may be rigidly connected to the blocking member and displaceable relative to the support member against the force of the spring.
The release member may be mounted on 80 one U-limb of the support means.
The lock may comprise a housing in which the support member is rigidly disposed, the housing having an opening and the release member comprising a manually pressable sur-85 face which projects from the opening on the retaining means being at the locking position thereof.
Pressable surface portions may converge inwardly of the housing and at the convergent 90 ends thereof define an opening for the insertion of the tongue.
The support member may be provided with fastening means for mounting the lock or for the attachment of a length of belt. 95 Embodiments of the present invention will now be more particularly described by way of example and with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:—
Figure 1 shows in an exploded illustration, 100 a group of components of a belt lock embodying the present invention,
Figure 2 shows in an exploded illustration, another group of components of a belt lock embodying the present invention, 105 Figure 3 shows a bearing shackle which is a modification of that shown in Fig. 2, and
Figures 4 and 5 show a complete belt lock containing the components shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and in a locked an unlocked position 110 relatively.
Referring to the accompanying drawings, reference numeral 1 in Figs. 1,2,4 and 5 indicates a metallic bearing shackle which comprises a one-piece stamped element which 11 5 is bent into a U-shape and has a plug opening 3 between connecting limbs 2. The flat bearing shackle at a rear side has a narrowed projection 4 provided with fastening location 5 in the form of a bore for the fastening of a 120 rail-like lock carrier 6. The bearing shackle 1 furthermore has a bent-up projection 7 for the bearing of a spring 8. Bearing bores 10 are provided symmetrically to both sides of the plug axis 9 and cut-outs 11 in the form of an 125 elongate hole are also provided. Designated by 12 are two locking hooks which are pivotably journalled to both sides of the plug axis 9 between both the plates of the U in the bearing bores 10 by means of corresponding 130 bearing spigots. The locking hooks comprise
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two-armed pivot levers and have a hook part
14 on one side of the pivot axis 13 (bearing bore) as well as a lug-shaped pressure part 1 5 on the other side of the pivot axis 13, wherein
5 the hook part and the pressure part together comprise a claw. Each locking hook 12 has an abutment 16 adjoining the pressure part 15 as well as slightly rounded abutment edges 17. The locking hooks 12 have bores 18, in 10 which both the free spring limbs 19 of a splaying spring 20 common to both locking hooks 12 are detentable. Both the locking hooks 12 are urged into the opening position shown in Fig. 5 by the splaying spring 20. 15 The components shown in Fig. 1 comprise a release member 21 of synthetic material, which at the underside is provided with guide projections 22 and 23 and at the front with a pressure area 24, which converges towards a 20 plug opening 25, as Fig. 1 clearly shows. A metallic blocking member 27 is rigidly borne in bearing openings 26 at the rear end of the release member 21 and centrally in the plug axis 9 has a pressure lug 28, to which adjoin 25 preferably slightly rounded abutment edges 29 and blocking shoulders 30. The blocking member 27 is rigidly borne by lateral bearing projections 31 in the bearing openings of the release member.
30 As shown in Figs. 4 and 5, the release member 21, together with the blocking member 27 is displaceably borne on the U-shaped bearing shackle 1 by means of the guide projections 22 and 23, wherein the release 35 member 21 is pressed by the spring 8 (Fig. 2), towards the front of the bearing shackle 1. The bearing body or the bearing shackle 1 in its turn is rigidly borne in a housing 32,
which comprises two synthetic material shells, 40 of which only the lower housing shell is illustrated in the Figs. 4 and 5. The housing 32 is open towards the front and towards the rear. Designated by 33 is the free end of a plug tongue, which free end is provided with 45 an enlargement and which can for example be fastened to the free end of a belt tape.
In Fig. 5, the belt lock is shown in the opening position. The locking hooks are so pressed against each other resiliently by the 50 splaying springs 20 that their pressure parts
15 abut in the plug axis 9 and their hook parts 14 stand apart so far that the plug tongue 34 is pluggable between the hook parts. The blocking member 27 rigidly con-
55 nected with the release member 21 is disposed in a setting, in which its abutment edges 29 bear areally against the abutment edges 17 of the locking hooks 12, while the pressure lug 28 engages to a certain extent 60 between the locking hooks 12. When the lug tongue 33 is plugged through the plug opening 3 of the bearing shackle 1 as well as through the plug opening 25 of the release member 21 and between the locking hooks 65 12, the frontal boundary of the plug tongue at first impinges on the mutually adjacent pressure parts 15 of the locking hooks 12. Through further movement of the plug tongue 33, the locking hooks 12 are symmetrically 70 pivoted outwardly against the force of the splaying spring 20 into the position shown in Fig. 4, while the hooks parts 14 and the pressure parts 15 embrace the enlarged end of the plug tongue 33 in claw-like manner. 75 During the pivotal motion of the locking hooks12, the resiliently biassed blocking member 27 of the release member 21 is freed towards the front and is displaced into the blocking position, which is shown in Fig. 4 80 and in which the abutments 16 of the locking hooks bear against the blocking shoulders 30 of the blocking member 27, whereby the blocking hooks are prevented from moving into the opening position. The pressure lug 85 28 of the blocking member 27 engages between the pressure parts 15 of the locking hooks 12 and presses the blocking tongue 33 resiliently against the hook parts 14 of the locking hooks 12. Thereby, the plug tongue is 90 located by the belt lock. To detach the plug tongue 33, the release member 21 is pressed at its pressure area 24 into the interior of the housing 32, where in a setting, in which the outermost boundary of the pressure area 24 is 95 disposed within the housing 32, the blocking position of blocking shoulders 30 and abutments 16 is cancelled so that the locking hooks 12 can pivot inwardly into the setting shown in Fig. 5, while the plug tongue 33 is 100 ejected out of the housing 32 by the pressure parts 15. The relative position of bearing shackle 1, release member 21 and housing 32 is so chosen that the outermost boundary of the gripping surface or pressure area 24 of 105 the release member in the opening position of the belt lock is disposed at the level of the frontal boundary of the housing 32, while the outermost boundary of the release member in the blocking position according to Fig. 4 110 slightly protrudes out of the housing 32.
The plugging-in of the plug tongue 33 is facilitated in that this is centered towards the plug opening by the convergent configuration of the pressure area 24 of the release mem-115 ber.
In the embodiment shown in Fig. 3, the bearing shackle 1' is slightly modified in so far as in its narrowed projection 4', there is provided a relatively large recess 34, in which 120 the free end of a belt tape can be fastened, for example with the interposition of an insert piece 35.
The above described embodiments have the advantage that they are play-free and the 125 tongue is functionally reliably located in the belt lock which is of simple construction.

Claims (1)

1. A safety belt lock comprising at least 130 one resiliently displaceable retaining means
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provided with hook means detentable at a locking position thereof with a tongue of an element intended to be connected to a safety belt length, a manually actuable release mem-5 ber operable to cause the device to release the tongue, and a blocking member connected to the release member, the blocking member being urged by a spring to block the retaining means at the locking position thereof and to
10 urge the tongue against the hook means.
2. A lock as claimed in claim 1, the retaining means being pivotably displaceable by a resilient force towards an opening position thereof at which the tongue is releasable, the
15 blocking member being displaceable against the force of the spring away from the retaining means and automatically couplable with the retaining means in the locking position thereof.
20 3. A lock as claimed in either claim 1 or claim 2, the retaining means comprising two pivotable levers provided with respective hook means which are movable towards each other to the locking position and away from each
25 other towards the opening position.
4. A lock as claimed in any one of the preceding claims, the retaining means comprising abutment means, the abutment means being spaced from the hook means and in the
30 locking position of the retaining means bearing against a shoulder of the blocking member.
5. A lock as claimed in any one of the preceding claims, the retaining means com-
35 prising projection means so disposed as to urge the tongue from the lock on actuation of the release member and as to cause displacement of the retaining means towards the locking position thereof by insertion of the
40 tongue into the lock.
6. A lock as claimed in either claim 4 or claim 5, wherein the blocking member comprises a central pressing lug and an abutment surface at each side of the pressing lug, the
45 retaining means comprising further abutment surfaces which are each so disposed as to engage a respective one of the abutment surfaces of the blocking means on the retaining means being at the opening position
50 thereof.
7. A lock as claimed in any one of the preceding claims, comprising a support member to mount the retaining means, the support member being of unitary construction, gener-
55 ally U-shaped and having an opening for the tongue at the base of the U.
8. A lock as claimed in claim 7, wherein the release member is rigidly connected to the blocking member and is displaceable relative
60 to the support member against the force of the spring.
9. A lock as claimed in claim 8, wherein the release member is mounted on one U-limb of the support member.
65 10. A lock as claimed in any one of claims
7 to 9, comprising a housing in which the support member is rigidly disposed, the housing having an opening and the release member comprising a manually pressable surface
70 which projects from the opening on the retaining means being at the locking position thereof.
11. A lock as claimed in claim 10, wherein pressable surface portions converge in-
75 wardly of the housing and at the convergent ends thereof define an opening for the insertion of the tongue.
12. A lock as claimed in any of claims 7 to 11, wherein the support member is pro-
80 vided with fastening means for mounting the lock or for the attachment of a length of belt.
13. A safety belt lock substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to Figs. 1, 2, 4 and 5 of the accompanying drawings.
85 14. A safety belt lock substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to Figs. 1,3,4 and 5 of the accompanying drawings.
Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Burgess & Son (Abingdon) Ltd.—1980.
Published at The Patent Office, 25 Southampton Buildings,
London, WC2A 1AY, from which copies may be obtained.
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FR875029A FR1309374A (en) 1961-10-04 1961-10-04 Locking device more particularly intended for vehicle seat belts
SE02822/71A SE357675B (en) 1961-10-04 1971-03-05
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GB35158/62A Expired GB1012141A (en) 1961-10-04 1962-09-14 Fastening device for safety belts for vehicle passengers
GB990672A Expired GB1338861A (en) 1961-10-04 1972-03-02 Buckles for safety belts
GB5616772A Expired GB1388504A (en) 1961-10-04 1972-12-05 Buckle body for a safety belt
GB7925146A Expired GB2029498B (en) 1961-10-04 1979-07-19 Safety belt buckle

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GB35158/62A Expired GB1012141A (en) 1961-10-04 1962-09-14 Fastening device for safety belts for vehicle passengers
GB990672A Expired GB1338861A (en) 1961-10-04 1972-03-02 Buckles for safety belts
GB5616772A Expired GB1388504A (en) 1961-10-04 1972-12-05 Buckle body for a safety belt

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